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Youth Must Be Equal Partners In Digital Decision Making – ITU Youth Summit
June 30, 2022
By Juliet Morrison “50 percent of the present, but 100 percent of the future,” was the refrain at the first-ever Generation Connect Global Youth Summit. Held in Kigali, Rwanda, from June 2-4, the youth summit saw community activists, entrepreneurs, engineers, policymakers, and students from over 115 countries discuss the digital divide and youth engagement. Another 4,800 participants joined virtually from research centers, universities, and schools. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency on information and communication technologies, organized the summit. It served as a build-up to the ITU’s World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC), held two days after the conference, from June 6–16. Participants at the
Africa’s Largest Healthcare Event Gears Up For A Return To In-Person Business In 2022
June 29, 2022
With Africa’s economies and health systems beginning to recover from the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, the region’s focus must once again return to meeting the healthcare goals and standards set out in the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. These include improving maternal care, reducing child mortality rates, and achieving continent-wide UHC coverage. Similarly, to achieve the SDG goals to which African nations have committed – especially Goal 3, which envisions UHC, good health and well-being across all ages by 2030 – Africa will have to prioritise the accessibility, quality and resilience of its healthcare systems going forward. Despite bearing 25% of
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The African Risk Capacity Group And The African Development Bank Make A $14.2 Million Drought Recovery Insurance
June 30, 2022
Payout To The Government Of Malawi In a ceremony presided over by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Malawi, Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, the Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the African Risk Capacity
Mastercard Expands Its Jaza Duka Micro-Credit Program With Kasha And Surpasses 1 Billion Kenyan Shilling In Loans To MSMEs In Africa
June 30, 2022
Mastercard’s micro credit digital lending platform expands to benefit more women and micro-entrepreneurs than ever before through partnership with Kasha. Jaza Duka now provides over 1.2 Billion Kenyan Shillings loan value to support women and
Unlocking The Opportunities For Electric Vehicle Manufacturing In South Africa
June 30, 2022
By Viren Sookhun, MD at Oxyon Electric vehicles are the future of transportation, with many countries already putting a time limit on the future of fossil fuel driven cars. In South Africa, this is both
Book Your Spot Now For WTM Africa And ILTM Africa 2023
June 30, 2022
Celebrate the lifting of COVID restrictions with discounted rates for Africa Travel Week’s leading shows WTM Africa and ILTM Africa 2023 Book your stand WTM Africa and your table at ILTM Africa 2023 before the
Bringing The Power Of The Collective To Over A Thousand Delegates At Nedbank IMC 2022
June 30, 2022
To a marketer, entrepreneur or creative, the question of customer relevance is growing in importance and complexity. The always-on, distraction-hungry and algorithm-driven marketplace, from which customer data has never been easier to access, can overwhelm
While Africa Does Have Many Entrepreneurs, Are They The Right Kind?
June 29, 2022
While Africa does have many entrepreneurs, are they the right kind, asks Adam Molai, an African industrialist and founder of TRT Investments which manages a diversified sector portfolio and operations in Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique
Kasi Insight is disrupting the market research industry with the launch of dataset
June 30, 2022
NAIROBI, Kenya, 30th June 2022 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Kasi Insight is Africa’s leading decision intelligence company empowering business leaders and entrepreneurs to make crucial decisions with confidence. The company conducts over 10,000 monthly interviews across
Human rights under threat in DR Congo and beyond, Security Council hears
June 29, 2022
The resurgence of the M23 armed group has “broad repercussions” for the security, human rights and humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and for the wider region, the UN Special Representative
Africa Publishing Innovation Fund and DAISY Consortium Giving Free Expert Training in Production of Accessible Books for Visually Impaired Readers
June 29, 2022
GENEVA, Switzerland,29 June, 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Africa Publishing Innovation Fund (APIF), a grant-giving program co-led by philanthropic organization Dubai Cares and the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the DAISY Consortium, a world authority on publishing for people with
FTT DAO raises $7 million, donated by FTX token fans
June 29, 2022
FTX Token Fans Start FTT DAO HONG KONG SAR, 29 June 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- FTT DAO, a community-led ecosystem DAO, has received 250,000 $FTT, worth approximately $7 million USD, in community donations to help kick start
Rise to the challenge: building intelligent enterprises in West Africa
June 28, 2022
by Titilayo Adewumi, Regional Sales Director for West Africa at SAP LAGOS, Nigeria, 28th June 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The past few years have been a wake-up call to businesses to speed up their digital transformation
Put women’s rights ‘front and centre’ of climate policies: Bachelet
June 28, 2022
NEW YORK, USA, 28 June 2022-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Although climate change threatens everyone, women and girls often suffer its harshest and most violent consequences, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Monday. “While I
Libya: UN highlights need to speed up progress towards national elections
June 27, 2022
Leaders in Libya must resolve outstanding issues so that long-awaited presidential and parliamentary elections can finally be held, UN political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council on Monday. “The United Nations’ priority in
Crypto Derivatives Leader Bybit Tackles Bear Market by Settling Options in USDC
June 27, 2022
VICTORIA, Seychelles, 27 June 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Bybit, a cryptocurrency exchange with one of the largest BTC futures open interest, is settling its options trading market in one of the world’s most trusted stablecoins: USDC. Unlike
Global hunger crisis pushing one child per minute, into severe malnutrition
June 24, 2022
NEW YORK, USA, 24 June 2022-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Because of the global hunger crisis, every single minute, one child is pushed into life-threatening, severe malnutrition. That’s the alarming message on Thursday from UN Children’s Fund UNICEF,
Cabo Verde: ‘Unprecedented’ food insecurity triggers social and economic emergency
June 23, 2022
The island nation of Cabo Verde is facing record levels of food insecurity due to drought, the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, affecting some 181,000 people, or 32 per cent of the country,
Conflict, drought, and dwindling food support threaten 20 million Ethiopian lives
June 23, 2022
unger is tightening its grip on more than 20 million Ethiopians who are facing conflict in the north, drought in the south and dwindling food and nutrition support beginning next month, the UN food relief
March to Kigali Movement with Over 300 Supporters Calls on Leaders to Eliminate Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Africa
June 23, 2022
Every two minutes, an African child dies from malaria. The continent accounts for over 90% of global malaria deaths and over 40 per cent of the global burden of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The Kigali Summit is a historic